Jamaica gets second nod on Rising Star list with Hibbert
Published:Wednesday | November 2, 2022 | 11:10 AMDaniel Wheeler/Staff Reporter
World Under-20 triple jump champion Jaydon Hibbert has been named a finalist for the 2022 World Athletics Men's Rising Star award.
The full list of nominees were announced by World Athletics, track and field’s governing body, today, with Hibbert counting among five vying to be honoured as the best Under-20 athlete this year.
The winner will be named at the World Athletic Awards next month.
Hibbert won the world title in a championship record 17.27 metres on his first attempt.
The world title was the culimination of a junior year which saw him win the class one triple jump crown at the ISSA/GraceKennendy Boys’ and Girls’ Atheltic Championships and and the Carifta Games in April.
Hibbert will have the United tates' Erriyon Knighton, France's Anthony Ammirati, Kenya's Emmanuel Wnyonyi, and Btswana's Lestile Tebogo for company on the shortlist.
The triple-jumping ace joins Kerrica Hill, who was yesterday named to the women’s under-20 shortlist for the Rising Star.
A Jamaican has never won the award, with only Anthonique Strachan of The Bahamas ever copping the prize from the Caribbean.
Strachan won in 2012, while the inaugural award was handed out in 2005.
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